Aerospace Fundamentals

by matlab

Aerospace Fundamentals is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by matlab in matlab-agentic-toolkit.

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Install Aerospace Fundamentals

Copy Aerospace Fundamentals into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit/tree/main/skills-catalog/aerospace/matlab-convert-aerospace-coordinates ~/.claude/skills/matlab-convert-aerospace-coordinates

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills-catalog/aerospace/matlab-convert-aerospace-coordinates/SKILL.md in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/matlab-convert-aerospace-coordinates
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Aerospace Fundamentals does

Aerospace Fundamentals performs aerospace unit, time, coordinate-frame, and rotation conversions using Aerospace Toolbox. Use it when converting between frames, Julian dates, or rotation forms such as Euler angles, DCMs, quaternions, and Rodrigues vectors.

Aerospace Fundamentals is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Aerospace Fundamentals comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, claude-code, codex-plugin, engineering-agents and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Aerospace Fundamentals

Core Aerospace Toolbox functions for unit conversions, time conversions, coordinate transformations, and rotation representations.

When to Use

Converting between aerospace unit systems (SI, imperial, nautical)
Computing Julian dates, modified Julian dates, decimal years, or TDB time
Transforming positions between ECEF, ECI, LLA, or flat Earth frames
Converting between geodetic and geocentric latitude
Building DCMs for frame transformations (ECI↔ECEF, ECEF↔NED, body↔wind, body↔stability)
Converting between Euler angles, DCMs, quaternions, and Rodrigues vectors
Using the quaternion object for rotation math, interpolation, or composition
Identifying which coordinate frame data is expressed in

When NOT to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Aerospace Fundamentals

What else does matlab publish alongside Aerospace Fundamentals?
Aerospace Fundamentals is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Build RoadRunner Scenario From OpenSCENARIO, Compute Aerospace Environment and Deploy Embedded Code. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Aerospace Fundamentals does, and is maintained by matlab in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit page.
How does Aerospace Fundamentals compare to other Automation skills?
Aerospace Fundamentals ranks #875 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Aerospace Fundamentals against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.